1932-05-07 — Page 7

SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1932.

NEW MOTOR CYCLE

SIDECARS.

B.S.A. Models on Show.

Something entirely new in motor cycle sidecars has just reached the Colony, and are now o show in Sincero's showroom.

last word in comfort and weather

FAMOUS SHEIKS REDUCED TO POVERTY.

Some of them are bringing their flocks of sheep and goats with them-the animals practically at their last gasp.

SEA LION ON RAMPAGE.

Escapes From Cage.

Adelaide.

THE CHINA MAIL.

FOREIGN ORDERS FORT.

LANCASHIRE

Cotton Trade Busier.

The trade improvement in the North-Western area is far more pronounced even than is indicated in the unemployment figures, writes

BUSTER KEATON AND HIS WIFE.

Trouble in the Family.

Buster Keaton, the film star, re- a Manchester Guardian correspon-turned to Hollywood after an aero- dent. It is not confined to the plane trip which, he said, proved cotton industry.

to the world "who is boss in my Engineering works have become house.

Mr. Keaton, with his two small moderately busy after a long period |

Lawless Men of the A sea lion escaped from its quar

Desert Starving.

ters at the North Adelaide' Snake Park early, this morning, and caused Amman, Transjordan-Bedouins much excitement in Rundle Street, Frontier into Adelaide, before it was recaptured are crossing the Transjordan-gaunt men of the and returned.

For three years the sea lion has desert, ragged and starving, in a Two models in particular take the state of pitiable distress. Sheiks, lived in a tank at the Glenelg cye.-a B.S.A. Launch sidecar and whose names have been famous Aquarium, but yesterday it was a Watsonian Launch salar. Both throughout Northern Arabia, are taken to North Adelaide in a motor of slackness. There are signs of sons, aged eight and nine respec- for light arriving from the Hedjaz clothed car, and lodged in a shed at the better times for the chemical trade, tively, and their nursemaid, took these models are "buik touring, and offer the passenger the in rags, their faces haggard and Snake Park for the night. After and the coal trade has been doing off on a journey to Mexico to look at a farm and bring the kids back their eyes haunted by the wolfish having apparently bumped against well.

the door of the shed until the bolt For some time past there has to Nature." But his expedition gleam of hunger. protection. They are designed on "Bread," is the unanimous reslipped, the sea lion clumbered out been more "life" about the cotton was interrupted by his wife, fer- over the wall and made off across market, and inquiries are material-merly Natalie Talmadge and smart and attractive lines, and are quest,

For weeks, these desperate the park to Rundle Street, a dia- ising into orders; notably from youngest of three Talmadge sisters. well sprung, roomy and comfortable.;

visitors have been keeping them tance of about half a mile. It was India and China. As this improve. She telephoned to San Diego, with The B.S.A. Model chassis has selves alive chiefly by means of found propped up against a shop ment has been gradual, over four the result that father and children window, and was lured into a motor or five months, and still persists were detained an hour by the police triangular construction with the edible roots.

car by Mr. H. Hawker, of the Suake confidence in the industry seems for, questioning. new Cee spring rear suspension, and

justified. The change, which began "The frozen faced" pantomime Silentbloc oilers tearings without

Park, and taken back to its shed.

with our departure from the Gold artiste, as he is called here, protest Standard, has apparently been emed volably. The shackles. As the man suggests

authorities phasised by tariffs.

seized the 'plane, which is owned the body is launch shape with black

Complete Dejection.

One recent estimate, founded on by Hoot Gibson, the cowboy actor. Complete dejection broods over coach finished side panels. The top

inside information, is that the They freed Mr. Keaton, however, these proud people of the sands. panels are grooved to represent

eotton industry is now busy up when he promised to return home "Over there," and they point to

to decking, and finished a greon with the desert from which they have

about 87 per cent.. of full by automobile... capacity. Many

have Mrs. Keaton refused to admit chromium plated edges. The in-fled, "there is bloodshed, lawless

new orders in hand which will that there is strife in the Keaton terior is finished in green uphols-ness-and famine."

keep them busy for several household, but she admitted she be These tribesmen are the victims

months ahead.

came "real sore" when her hus tery, and a luggage compartment is itted behind the seat with a hinged of fate.. They come from the

Statistics show that Great Britain band, without consulting her, flew Northern Hedjaz-the Harrow to panel. A waterproof apron and

plain bordering the Gulf of Akaba

is almost alone in showing increas-away, taking the children with windscreen is provided.

She denied asking the San The Watsonian is built on similar (where "Lawrence of Arabia" once

ed exports of piece goods. The him.

of the volume of orders Diego police to arrest her hus lines, but is finished in aluminium brought them his strange and

prospect

band, but said that she desired them and imitation mahogany, with red inspiring influence)-the Northern

increasing is distinctly good, upholstery and cushions. One novel end of the Red Sea, and the long innovalion fitted to the Watsonian is range of rugged sandstone hills. a detachable hood with windows on two sides and a windscreen. As in the B.S.A. model, a luggage locker is situated at the rear of the seat.

Flited to the 5.57 h.p. de Luxe B.S.A. these sidecars present a striking appearance and should find a ready sale at competitive prices.

ARMISTICE TERMS.

Favourable Views in Foreign Press.

economic depression which has surged over the world even to these remote parts.

The officials and troops of Ibn Saud are now nine or ten months in arrears of pay. Their patrol cars are immobilized through lack of fuel, and spare parts. The gar- risens of the Government centres are restless to the point of mutiny. And so, with this weakening of Government control, the immutable law of the desert has asserted itself the weak have suffered so that the strong may survive.

Raiding and robbery have broken Their country, normally, consists out. Stronger tribes have plunder- of plains and valleys covered with ed the weak. Troops, sent on puni- vegetation, on which the nomadictive expeditions, have seized their pastoral tribes maintain themselves opportunity, and treated their together with their camels and operations as "oficial raids" the their flocks.

results of which have accrued to A series of lean years and un-officials and soldiers in lieu of pay, usually low rainfall have reduced Confusion And Despair. these Bedouins to serious straits. Food and fodder have become in creasingly scarce. What once were green valleys are now sandy wastes with shrivelled herbage and dried twigs on which neither man beast can sustain life.

Ibn Saud himself liyes, in the centre of the Nejd, far from the unsettled areas, hundreds of miles away from the scenes of such con- fusion and despair.

By Nature Lawless. The tribes of this area-the Beni Atia, Billi, Aneiza and the Omran New York, Yesterday.

are by nature lawless, ready to The State Department_con-defy any authority from the siders that the Shanghai Peace security of precipitous crags of red, Pact is excellent and hopes that brown and yellow rocks. But they the Japanese troops will now have been, until recently, in awe gradually be withdrawn. of the might of Ibn Saud, the According to the New York Puritan ruler of Nejd and the Times the Department considers Hedjaz. that the withdrawal may be The failue of their grazing han Reports of robbery and murder hastened by the need of addition- come at the same time as the reach the frontier posts every day.

Reu- al troops in Manchuria. ter's American Service.

Congratulations to All

London, Yesterday. Congratulations have been ex- tended on every hand to all, who by action and influence in the Far East and Europe, are con- cerned in the Sino-Japanese arm- istice.

The Times says it is im- mensely to the credit of Mr. Quo Tai-chi, Mr. Shigemitsu and

General Uyeda-that they re- fused to allow misfortune to in- terfere with their purpose. Bri-] tish diplomacy, as represented by Sir Miles Lampson, is accorded a share of the credit.

"It is too soon," comments the Times, "to say that the whole of the Shanghai episode has been liquidated, but a practical modus vivandi has been reached which takes into account the special in- ternational character of the great Chinese port and entrepot, and which, if properly observed, should render possible, a revival of its vast trading operations with no interruption from boy. cotters and Tuchuns." Reuter. Preserving the Peace.

Shanghai, Yesterday. The fourth section of the Sino- Japanese Armistice agreement has been released for publicatión. Th's section, which was in the form of a statement attached by the Chinese Government, la as follows:

"In order to ease the general situation and to secure a prompt re-establishment of stability and normal conditions in the

areas, the Chinese Go

hereby intimates.

immediately to

own initiative.

anca of peace avicinity:

J

"

concerns

HONEYMOON ISLAND.

Dalmatian Paradise Specially

Reserved.

desire

to seize the children and send them back by motor-car.

COLONY'S WATER.

Belgrade.-A small island in hardship. That was the principal the Adriatic, off the Dalmatian argument against the introduction Coast, is to be reserved entirely for of sea water for

domestic pur the use of honeymoon couples. poses.

Noticing the

of young Dr. Balean had, suggested that newly married people for solitude, there was no need to use fresh an enterprising hotel proprietor water, for flush purposes, but about has taken a small Dalmatian island 50 per cent. of the owners of and is building a fine hotel there.

water closet flush systems were

The tribes in those afflicted parts of Arabia are consequently scatter. The island is about three miles supplied from their own wells, ing, moving across the desert in long by one mile wide, well wood-under their properties, and not search of pasture and food. Some ed with firs and palms, and has from the maina. The few caser drift over the frontiers of Trans- an excellent beach, besides numer where this rule did not apply were jordan; some into Palestine and ous little sheltered coves with fine fh regard to Government offices,

bathing from the rocks. T

which were supplied from the the Nejd."

Their presence and their desper- Only couples who can produce mains. ate plight constitute a very real certificates that they have been

Shing Man Scheme. danger. So much so that no small married less than two months, will

In regard to "the humiliating: party of travellers-nomads, vil be allowed to stay on the island experience of having to apply to lagers or pilgrims-is safe from Steamers call only

once a week, distant ports like Shanghai and attack.

trippars are not allowed to land Singapore for emergency supplies and there are no inhabitants ex-during a water shortage," the offi cept the hotel staff.

cial stated that had the advice been taken of the Water Works Engineer. Mr. Henderson, who pressed as early as 1921 for the completion of the Shing Mun catchwater, the shortage of 1929 might never have occurred,

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The first section of the Shing Mun scheme was completed last year, when a pipe was laid across the harbour, but it was not known when the second-section would be finished. The service reservoir: in the Botanical Gardens will prob ably be supplied from Shing Mun, and is estimated to store as much as 5,000,000 gallons. Our Inform- ant cautiously added, however, that he was not prepared to say that a water shortage would never occur once this was completed!

Ridiculous Statement.

He added that the suggestion |that 10 gallons per head per day [were"" :anficient; was ridiculous. The average, supply per head for the London, districts. la 85 gallons In 24 houra, varying from 25 to $7 gallona. Bome towns exceed this amount, while others do not reach it; in Glasgow, for example, the daily supply is 58 gallons, - while | In⠀⠀ Sheffield; it is on 26. Dr. Parkes has calculated the amount used per head in a household: of fairly cleanly people at 12 gallons; In this calculation, 2% to 8 gal- lone are allowed for a daily sponge. bath, and it includes clothes, uten ailand house-washing,” but not a water-closet supply

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